> ./configure --disable-error-on-warning --prefix=`pwd`/../gnu-packages
Ah, using `pwd' here is a bad idea, sorry. You should rather use ./configure --disable-error-on-warning --prefix=$HOME/gnu-packages So here are the complete instructions again. cd $HOME mkdir gnu-packages wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.8.tar.gz tar xzvf guile-1.8.8.tar.gz cd guile-1.8.8 ./configure --disable-error-on-warning --prefix=$HOME/gnu-packages make make install Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user